Texas Summer (16 page)
Terry and Carol Southern in Paris in 1956.
A page from the original draft of
Flash and Filigree
written between 1952 and 1957.
Working on
The Magic Christian
galleys in Geneva in 1958.
Gore Vidal’s rave write-up of
The Magic Christian
(1959), written on the back of a starched shirt backing. Vidal writes, “Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation . . .”
The telegram that changed everything. This communiqué from Stanley Kubrick invited Southern to come to London to work on Kubrick’s new screenplay for the movie
Dr. Strangelove
(1964). Southern was instrumental in transforming the film from a political thriller into a satire.
Southern and his son, Nile, in Central Park in 1967. (Photo by Michael Cooper.)
From left to right: William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Allen Ginsberg, and Jean Genet, covering the National Democratic Convention for
Esquire
in Chicago, 1968. (Photo by Michael Cooper.)
Southern with his dog, Hunter, in Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1980s. (Photo by Nile Southern.)
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Excerpt from “I Like Mountain Music” (Frank Weldon, James Cavonaugh) © 1993 Warner Bros. Inc. (Renewed) All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission.
copyright © 1991 by Terry Southern
cover design by Milan Bozic
978-1-4532-1739-9
This edition published in 2011 by Open Road Integrated Media
180 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
